⇢ Maid Estate

@Ⓒ Park Kyungri I, as well as about 7 other girls, were escorted with our tight, plain maid outfits that were newly sewn for us, to the castle, by some guards and the head lady that had been training us for this day for the past couple years. Graduation. We had already celebrated with a small party some of the youngers had thrown with us, but now, it was day 1 of our new lives in servant-hood of the royals under the Park Palace roof. Seeing the castle this up close was breath taking, and some of the girls were smiling in excitement just like I was, because for most of us this was our chance. My chance to make sure my grandparents were welly taken care of, for sure. 'You can do this; work hard, be positive' I thought to myself, over and over as the guards eventually left us, and we were lead to the back of the castle, in which the servants were suppose to enter. It smelled of farm land, but as soon as we hit the door, and were inside, it smelled like all sorts of fruits, breads, even some chickens were cooking. The aruma was enough to make my mouth water. Then, things went too fast. We paused every room, and the cranky lady who trained us explained what room it was, and then would pick out a girl or two to start working in a room. It was around the middle when I was picked. I didn't expect to be in the upper kitchen, but I guess somehow with my skills (because, according to the cranky lady, she had told us all a few short weeks ago, that she would pick our positions best on her best judgement, observations, and testing scores on our maid criteria) she thought that would be a good place to start. I smiled to the crowd of workers around us, most needing to focus on work than attention on us new maids, before I was left alone, and the train of my friends still needing to be placed had moved to the next room, without even a goodbye. And there I was. Alone, in this big group of bustling people. I gulped nervously, but knew I needed to make myself useful. "Um, excuse me?" I asked, walking over to some nice looking maids doing some cooking. "Is there any way I can help you? Or any job that needs to be done?"

@ⓅⓂ Park Sooyoung [Hiatus] /grabs some ingrediaents from the basket of fresh vegatables boight earlier that morning by the merchants to restock the food that was available in the palace, I take them out and wash them under some water setting them down on a cutting board while the other maid cutes them up, drying my hands i take a pot fill it with water and place it on the stove to let the water boil, I take a seat on one of the chairs wiping the sweat from off my forehead after moving around in the heat from the kitchen/ "I heard the new maids that were trainined are supposed to be coming in soon? When do you think they'll get here" /I say talking with another maid who is watching over the pot/